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For 639 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 60
Highest review score: 100 Donnie Darko
Lowest review score: 0 Rollerball
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 314 out of 639
  2. Mixed: 210 out of 639
  3. Negative: 115 out of 639
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  1. The Last Castle
    Lurie's politics aside, it's astonishing that a man who once reviewed films keeps churning out movies full of cinema's most hollow clichés; indeed, he turns out stuff that's even more disjointed and improbable than the most mediocre fare.
  2. Riding in Cars with Boys
    An overlong compendium of Oprah moments meant to move and inspire, even if, by the end, it's too exhausted with itself to offer up a single authentic tear or revelation.
  3. Waking Life
    While much of the film is as scattershot as life itself, there are a few superb sequences involving lucid dreaming that really get down to business.
  4. My Voyage to Italy
    For most people, four hours pushes the outer comfort limits for theatrical viewing. My Voyage to Italy is well worth the time, but bringing along a thermos of espresso isn't a bad idea either.
  5. Dancing at the Blue Iguana
    All the ladies get repeatedly naked, which, after all, is why you're going to go see it. And there's nothing wrong with that.
  6. The Human Body
    Pustules, puberty and pregnancy...seven stories tall! Mostly grand but occasionally grody
  7. Bandits
    Delightful almost in spite of itself.
  8. Ha-Chaverim Shel Yana
    Swept Israel's version of the Oscars two years ago, and though it won't do as well here, it's an accomplished debut with heart, war and sex. In the age of paranoia, it just might be the perfect date movie.
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  9. Corky Romano
    Simply, the worst movie of a wretched year.
  10. Spriggan
    The best way to watch it is with a loaded bong, the volume turned down and the Orb cranked up on your stereo.
  11. Iron Monkey
    It's funny, heroic, exaggerated and, most of all, energetic; the film speeds along as though afraid to lose the audience's attention for even a moment.
  12. Mulholland Dr.
    While this road may contain too many potholes -- and plotholes -- to sustain an even ride, there are moments of greatness scattered throughout to remind us why Lynch is vital and why the French think he's so nifty.
  13. My First Mister
    As it stands, it's cute, occasionally poignant and outrageously implausible.
  14. Werckmeister Harmonies
    The pacing is slow, but the film is entrancing and earns a permanent place in the viewer's mind.
  15. Fat Girl
    In the end, leaves you feeling both violated and startlingly informed, as if a mugger had whacked you in a dark alley.
  16. Max Keeble's Big Move
    While some of Max's pranks are exhilarating and funny -- the movie takes too long setting things up and, once the pranks are over, dawdles to its inevitable conclusion.
  17. The Learning Curve
    The movie's all flash and formula, as original as the letter A, especially when it collapses in a dung heap of gunfire and corpses.
  18. Grateful Dawg
    With no aspects of the personalities represented outside of their music, Grateful Dawg ends up feeling dry and incomplete; its two subjects are stripped of all other characteristics and come across as not very interesting.
  19. Chop Suey
    Weber uses Faye as base from which to branch out in bizarre directions.
  20. Joy Ride
    Manages to be both astoundingly derivative and reasonably entertaining at the same time.
  21. The Hidden Half
    Out of prison, Milani is still not allowed to leave Iran. Whether she will ever get the chance to make another film there is doubtful, all the more reason not to miss this one.
  22. The Debut
    The cast is uniformly excellent; all involved seem keyed into the subtextual subtleties of a story that, while simple on the surface, is exceedingly rich underneath.
  23. Training Day
    Washington creates an indelibly charming and terrifying character whose volatile blend of dedication and horrible expediency keeps us off balance.
  24. Serendipity
    Serendipity already feels archaic, like some dusty relic that's been unearthed from an antique store's attic and polished off for display.
  25. La Ciénaga
    For better or worse, the filmmaker says nothing directly political about the cruel fate suffered by her people, but the dark poetry of her allusions is powerful.
  26. Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
    The film could be subtitled "Six Characters in Search of an Ending:" When they find that ending, it is gently, delightfully uplifting.
  27. Born Romantic
    Though perhaps too mainstream for the art-house crowd and too foreign for the multiplex, Born Romantic is a natural crowd-pleaser, and deserves to be more successful than its limited engagement may permit it to be.
  28. Jabberwocky (re-release)
    Awesome! Bravura! Captivating! Dazzling!
  29. Sobreviviré
    A thoughtful, well-acted and well-observed (though bleak) look at what some people have to put up with to get through life.
  30. Don't Say a Word
    Amid a rather routine plot and standard cop-show stylings -- just doesn't add up to much entertainment value.
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